Do you know of Heath ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Heath. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Heath.
Our sources for Heath (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Heath other than they indicate that Heath would be found somewhere in Chester County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1907.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Heath ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Heath.
Within South Carolina, the name Heath is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Heath [Covington County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Heath.
- Colorado
- Kiowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Heath [Kiowa County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Heath [Sussex County].
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Heath [Washington County].
- Indiana
- Boone County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Heath [Boone County].
- Tippecanoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Heath [Tippecanoe County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- McCracken County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Heath [McCracken County].
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Heath [Franklin County].
- Minnesota
- Montana
- Fergus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Heath [Fergus County].
- Nebraska
- Banner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Heath [Banner County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Lenoir County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Heath [Lenoir County].
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Heath [Mercer County].
- Tennessee
- Dickson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Heath [Dickson County].
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Heath [Johnson County].
- Texas
- Rockwall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Heath [Rockwall County].
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Heath [Davis County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Heath ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Heath:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Chester County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Chester County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Heath could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |